Above: Terry Bloodworth, owner of Springfield Hot Glass on Campbell Avenue, said he's pleased that work is going on during a slow time for foot traffic to his business.

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As earth-moving equipment recently descended on Campbell Avenue downtown, scraping off and digging beneath pavement and sending forth clouds of dust, business owner Terry Bloodworth calmly observed that the disruption could have been much worse.

"There would be bankruptcies," said Bloodworth, owner of Springfield Hot Glass, if the current Streetscape project had taken place during the Christmas season, the biggest revenue-producing period of the year. He, along with other downtown merchants, worked through the Urban Districts Alliance to encourage Springfield Public Works to ...